Lavrov: Russia has a full understanding of how to move forward in the face of Western sanctions

11 May 2022


Russia has a full understanding of how to continue to live in the face of large-scale sanctions of the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday at a press conference following talks with Omani Foreign Minister Badr Bin Hamad Bin Hamood Al Busaidi.


"We have a full understanding of how we should proceed. The main conclusion: not to rely at all on the fact that the West is treaty-capable in our plans," the minister said, answering a related question.


According to Lavrov, the West has proved that "for the sake of establishing its hegemony, it is ready for crimes against the principles it itself professes, including outright theft and plunder." "The inviolability of private property, the presumption of innocence, everything that Western civilization has boasted all these years as the founding principles of their state formations, it's all derailed and grossly violated," added the head of the Russian foreign ministry.


"We have already drawn conclusions. We will rely on ourselves and on our reliable partners, the vast majority of which are outside the so-called former golden billion," said Lavrov.


In addition, the minister continued, Russia has enough energy buyers other than Europe. "We have enough buyers of our energy resources, and we will work with them. And let the West pay [for energy resources] much more expensive than it paid to Russia, and let it explain to its population why they should become poorer," Lavrov stressed.

 

 

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Based on materials from TASS